Cobi Jones and Alexi Lalas

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Who knows how the rest of this photo shoot went with these former U.S. soccer teammates, but based off what we see here, it was probably just as cheesy.

Soccer players are known to let loose and be a little quirkier than other athletes, though if this is the way people thought we'd be able to popularize the sport in the States, well then, the game stands no hope of catching on!

Tim Lincecum

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It's obvious that the two-time Cy Young winner didn't actually stand in an oversized tub of popcorn, but he had to at least have some idea of how they were going to use him on the cover of Sports Illustrated for Kids.

And though "Big Time Timmy Jim" seems to have a childish personality, we don't even think he enjoyed seeing himself on the cover in this case.

World Cup Soccer Players

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If it were up to us, we'd prefer the World Cup be promoted by those hot WAGS every soccer player seems to be running around with these days.

Instead, in 2010, we got this.

A photo of two Brazilian guys (Kaka and Pato), a Ghanaian player (Sulley Muntari) a player from Cameroon (Samuel Eto'o), and the top American player of the past decade (Landon Donovan) just for good measure.